SafeRock at SCI Perkin Medal Award Dinner
It was a great honor for SafeRock to be invited to honor the 2024 Medalist of the SCI Perkin Medal Max McDaniel, hosted by the Science History Institute.
The SCI Perkin Medal is recognized as one of the highest honors given for outstanding work in applied chemistry in the United States. It commemorates the discovery of the first synthetic dye (Perkin mauve) by Sir William Henry Perkin in 1856. This discovery was a significant step forward in organic chemistry that led to the birth of a major segment of the chemical industry.
The Perkin Medal was first awarded to Sir William at a banquet in New York in 1906. Today the award is presented as part of Innovation Day, a daylong collaborative research conference cohosted by the Society of Chemical Industry and the Science History Institute.
Max McDaniel is a senior fellow scientist at Chevron Phillips Chemical, where he has been responsible for significant advances in catalyst technologies for the polymerization and trimerization of ethylene, to produce high performance polyethylene and 1-hexene. In 2024 he was awarded his 500th U.S. patent.
The picture above shows from left to right: David Cole (Science History Institute, President & CEO), Shah Karim (SafeRock CEO, Co-Chair and Presider of CME NASA Symposium), Steve Prusak (Chevron-Phillips Chemical, President & CEO).